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Shakespeare And Company, Paris: A History Of The Rag & Bone Shop Of The Heart,New
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A Copiously Illustrated Account Of The Famed Paris Bookstore On Its 65Th Anniversarythis Firstever History Of The Legendary Bohemian Bookstore In Paris Interweaves Essays And Poetry From Dozens Of Writers Associated With The Shopallen Ginsberg, Anas Nin, Ethan Hawke, Robert Stone And Jeanette Winterson, Among Otherswith Hundreds Of Neverbeforeseen Archival Pieces, Including Photographs Of James Baldwin, William Burroughs And Langston Hughes, Plus A Foreword By The Celebrated British Novelist Jeanette Winterson And An Epilogue By Sylvia Whitman, The Daughter Of The Stores Founder, George Whitman. The Book Has Been Edited By Krista Halverson, Director Of The Newly Founded Shakespeare And Company Publishing House.George Whitman Opened His Bookstore In A Tumbledown 16Thcentury Building Just Across The Seine From Notredame In 1951, A Decade After The Original Shakespeare And Company Had Closed. Run By Sylvia Beach, It Had Been The Meeting Place For The Lost Generation And The First Publisher Of James Joyces Ulysses. (This Book Includes An Illustrated Adaptation Of Beachs Memoir.) Since Whitman Picked Up The Mantle, Shakespeare And Company Has Served As A Homeawayfromhome For Many Celebrated Writers, From Jorge Luis Borges To Ray Bradbury, A.M. Homes To Dave Eggers, As Well As For Young Authors And Poets. Visitors Are Invited Not Only To Read The Books In The Library And To Share A Pot Of Tea, But Sometimes Also To Live In The Bookstore Itselfall For Free.More Than 30,000 People Have Stayed At Shakespeare And Company, Fulfilling Whitmans Vision Of A Socialist Utopia Masquerading As A Bookstore. Through The Prism Of The Shops History, The Book Traces The Lives Of Literary Expats In Paris From 1951 To The Present, Touching On The Beat Generation, Civil Rights, May 68 And The Feminist Movementall While Pondering That Perennial Literary Question, What Is It About Writers And Paris?
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